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June 3; 1924. 1,496,642

E. A. HULTS ET AL APPARATUS FOR AND PROCESS OF MAKING SAGGERS Filed July 26. 1921 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 E.A. HUlg-FS ET AL API' ARATUS FOR AND PROCESS OF MAKING SAGGERS Filed July 26. 1921 2 ShQet s -Sheet 2 Patented June 3, 1924.

' EUGENE A..--HU-LTS,:OF SALTVILLE, VIRGINIA, AND grosnr rr. ma aise geranium.- 'PEIA,;PENNSYLVANIA, AssIGNons'rornooron & SGHWAJBEZ, INCORPORATED, or

" rH'IL'ADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION as PENNSYLVANIA.

APPARATUS FOR AND PROCESS OF MAKING SAGGERS.

Application filed July 26, 1921. Serial No. 487,794.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EUGENE A. Home and JosnrH F. MORANZ, citizens of the United States, residing in Saltville, Smyth County, Virginia, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, respectively, have invented certain Improvements in an Apparatus for and Process of Making Saggers, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to certain improvements in the process of handling green, or soft, saggers which have been molded in a press and which must be transferred to the baking ovens or kilns.

One object of the invention is to improve the process of handling sag'gers of this type so as to prevent breakage or disortion of the saggers while being transferred from the press to the whirler where they are finished.

A further object of the invention is to provide means for carrying out the process.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a sectional view of sufi'icient of a sagger press to illustrate our invention, the mold being in section and showing the plunger raised;

Fig. 2 is a. view similar to Fig. 1, showing the plunger depressed and the sagger formed in the mold;

Fig. 3 is a plan view showing the press in the position illustrated in Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a plan view showing the mold opened and the sagger partly withdrawn;

Fig. 5 is a side view, showing the upper portion of the whirler with the trayand saggers thereon;

Fig. 6 is a plan view of Fig. 5;

Fig. 7 is a plan view, similar to Fig. 6, with the metal plate withdrawn;

Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the sagger;

Fig. 9 is a perspective view of the metal plate; and

Fig. 10 is a perspective view of the metal stop.

Referring to the drawings, 1 is the bed of a sagger press of the usual construction. 2 is the plunger having a portion 3, which is the inner die. 4 is a mold made in two parts pivoted at 5 so that it can be opened, as shown in Fig. 4, to remove the sagger. 6 is a metal plate, shown clearly in Fig. 9, which rests on the bed 1 and extends under the mold, in the present instance. a is a body of clay from which the sagger is to be made. When the plunger is lowered, it forces the clay into the space between the die 8 of the plunger and the mold 4, as shown in Fig. 2, forming the sagger. The plate 6 has two handles 7, in the present instance, by which the plate can be withdrawn from the press.

8 is a tray made of slats 9 spaced apart. These slats are connected by battons 10 at each side. The plate 6, with the sagger thereon, is withdrawn from the mold, as shown in Fig. 4, and onto the tray 8. The tray is transferred, with the sagger and the plate, onto a whirler 11. This whirler consists of a standard 12 on which is pivoted a head 13. On the head 13 is a slatted table 14 having stops 15, which hold the tray 8 when the plate 6 is withdrawn. In order to hold the sagger to the tray 8, a metal stop 16 is used, the stop being formed, as shown in Fig. 10, having projecting pins 17, which extends into the space between the two slats of the tray 8 so that when this stop is in position, the plate 6 can be withdrawn, as shown in Fig. 7, the sagger being prevented from moving with the plate by the stop 16. The sagger is then finished on the whirler and, when completed, the tray, with the sagger thereon, is transferred to any convenient storage point. i The metal plate is formed, as shown in Fig. 9, being recessed to allow the pins of the metal stop to engage the slats of the tray.

While the invention is especially adapted for making saggers, it can be used for makllllg other open and heavy bodies from green 0 ay. I

It will be understood that the metal plate 6 is highly polished and is oiled before each operation so that the molded clay will not adhere to the plate as it is withdrawn therefrom.

We claim: 7

l. The process herein described of making saggers and other bodies of green clay, said process consisting in first molding the saggers on a detachable plate, opening the mold, removing the plate with the saggers thereon on a tray, holding the molded saggers to the tray and withdrawing the plate from under the saggers so that the saggers will rest upon the tray.

2. The combination in means for forming saggers and other bodies of green clay,

5 of a molding press; a removable plate on which a sagger is formed; a slatted tray on which the plate, with the sagger, is

placed; a stop partly encircling the sagger, said stop having pins engaging the tray so that the plate can'be withdrawn to allow 10 the sagger to rest directly on the tray.

' EUGENE A. HULTS. JOS. F. onaNz. 

